Rodion Shchedrin: Dead Souls: Act Two (Part One)

Rodion Shchedrin's 1976 opera 'Dead Souls,' adapted from Gogol's novel (or "poem") by Shchedrin himself (with texual suggestions from Shostakovich).

Act Two (Part One):

19. Sobakevich (Aria portrait) - 20. "Russia is a very large country" - 21. Sextet - 22. The Coachman Selifan (Quartet)

The Moscow Chamber Chorus, Chorus and Orhestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Yuri Temirkanov, conducting

Alexander Voroshilo
Vladislav Pyavko
Larisa Avdeyeva
Boris Morozov
Galina Borisova
Vitaly Vlasov

Picture by Chagall

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